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Welcome to the archives of Better Cities & Towns, a publication founded by Robert Steuteville as New Urban News in 1996. This archive holds two decades of the best news and analysis on compact, mixed-use growth and development, from 1996 to 2015.
The first traditional neighborhood development in Iowa — the Peninsula Neighborhood in Iowa City — is off to a good start in terms of sales and aesthetics, but costs have been a problem. Three months after the grand opening, more than half of the 81...
Utah Governor Michael O. Leavitt, President Bush’s nominee to head the US Environmental Protection Agency, has earned a reputation in the Beehive State as a forceful proponent of “quality growth,” but some observers fault him for not having made...
CNU will participate in a forum on Latino New Urbanism October 17 in Los Angeles. The forum will begin a discussion around the nexus between the nation’s growing Latino population and future development patterns in Southern California. If you are...
New from the National Charrette Institute, the NCI Charrette Start-Up Kit is an instructional CD-ROM authored by NCI executive director Bill Lennertz, board member Steven Coyle, and program director Aarin Lutzenhiser. It features a 96-minute...
Continuum Lakewood Development Company (CLDC) has announced details of the first phase of Belmar, a $500 million public/private project that will transform a 104-acre former mall site into a traditional mixed-use downtown for the suburban Denver...
The July/August 2003 issue, on page 19, incorrectly described the Community of Christ as Mormon. The church — the owner of land in Independence, Missouri, that is slated for development as a new urban community — had its historical origins in the...
For 17 years, developer Buff Chace has planned to build residential neighborhoods on the edges of his Mashpee Commons shoppin g center on Cape Cod. And for most of those years, municipal or county regulations and conventional zoning have stood in...
Two new funding sources for infill development are coming into being, each with the potential to leverage a half billion dollars or more of real estate investment in the next decade. One focuses on the Miami area, the other on Albuquerque.
The Smart Growth Network has released the PowerPoint show, “Making Land Development Regulations Work for Smart Growth.” This presentation, aimed at a wide range of audiences, discusses the kinds of land development regulations found in many...
The City of Salinas, California is moving expeditiously to adopt a new urban zoning code. Cotton/Bridge/Associates has been engaged to draft the regulatory provisions, and Calthorpe Associates is creating the design features of a “Future Growth Area...
The initial 120 of 1,116 planned homes are rising on Maple Lawn’s 507 acres in Howard County, Maryland. Developer Greenbaum and Rose Associates’ first-phase agenda also includes 90,000 square feet of a planned one million square foot office district...
With its preliminary site plan approval in hand and final approval expected this fall, Leyland Alliance’s Warwick Grove development will begin taking shape as a 40-acre addition to the Village of Warwick, in New York’s Hudson Valley. The...